I just finished re-reading The #Dispossessed. I've often called it the best #book ever written.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-13/editorial-drought-nonfunctional-grass

#TragedyOfEnclosure #dispossessed #indigenous communities for #BigAgro, #corruptpoliticians, and #ViolentRanchers to grow #segregated #cities ornamented with useless #turf: Limiting #thirsty, nonusable #landscaping is doubly important right now because California, Nevada and Arizona are negotiating for #shares of the shrinking #ColoradoRiver.

#ClimateChangeIsReal #nativeplants

Saturday's book of the day is:
#documentary #documentaryfilm #migration #globalization #dispossessed

To be whole is to be part;
True voyage is return.

#Anarres #UrsulaLeGuin, #dispossessed

“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it.

We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.” - Shevek's speech, The Disposssessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

#leguin #dispossessed #scifi #anarchism #socialism #shevek #utopia

I've just finished #LeGuin 's #Dispossessed and I have to say I don't like it.

The world is absolutely beautiful and I'd love to read more about it, but it's presented in such a bad way. The story is a chore to follow. The real problems of an anarchist society are presented only 90% in. Despite the main character making two very important decisions on the course of a book, it doesn't feel like he had any choice, or there was any real tension. It just kind of happened.

#solarpunk